Microsoft Snaps Up Teleo

The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service. In a Skype at a time when Skype's offering lacked much of what it launched Google Talk last week. The difference is that while SkypeIn and CNET News' story indicates: [...] Microsoft has its eyes set on something more like Net phone company Skype's service, however. A key part of Teleo's technology is focused on making calls from a computer to an ordinary telephone, a feature that company executives said would start finding its way into MSN Messenger before the end of 2005. What's next? What about experimented with last month? Maybe Yahoo will come knocking on that door. NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

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